OpenShot Video Editor

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Asked by OnSite511

This is a great piece of software. I'm awed by your skill and determination.

I stumbled across your work after buying a camcorder that saved its video in the AVCHD format, and I couldn't get it off my camcorder in a usable format for burning onto a dvd, or export to the web that I could share with my family.

What I'm wondering is if it would be a good idea to provide some assistance to exporting video, perhaps some default settings (profiles) like "Region 1 DVD", "Web Video", etc. that mean more to less sophisticated users, and would set the video and audio settings to the 'correct' ones.

It would mean another section in the Export Video window, and perhaps a 'profile wizard' to walk the user through generating a profile, but the Video Settings and Audio Settings could be collapsed.

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Helen McCall (wildnfree) said : 		#1

Hello OnSite511

At present there are no direct import facilities in OpenShot for importing from a camera. Most AVCHD cameras have a USB link which will work properly with Linux.

To import movies from your camera, follow the camera's instructions for physical connection to computer. When the camera is on, and set to USB link, Gnome or KDE will recognise that a USB device has been attached and will present a FileManager showing the mounted USB filing system.

The AVCHD filesystem starts with 3 folders:

DCIM
MISC
PRIVATE

Your video clips are in PRIVATE->AVCHD->BDMV->STREAM

Copy the clips found in that sub-folder to a folder on your computer, and you can then edit them directly with OpenShot.

The BDMV sub-folder is a blu-ray disk image! This can be written directly to a DVD and played on a Blu-Ray player. However I have not tried this because I have not got a Blu-Ray disk player. I think that one or two minor changes have to be made to filenames to make the filesystem from some cameras work properly on a Blu-Ray disk player.

To export your movies to DVD from OpenShot you want to select
video format = vob
video codec = mpeg2video
video data rate = 5 Mb/s
audio codec = ac3

This will write a vob file which you can import into any DVD creation programme to write to a DVD.

I hope this helps,

Helen McCall

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